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	2007
	May	June	July	August	September	October
Overall Total Number of Adults Attending Ceremonies	40	65	40	60	55	75
Philippines	20	30	25	30	15	35
India	5	5	5	10	10	10
China (Peoples Republic of China)	(1)—	5	(1)—	5	10	10
South Africa	(1)—	(1)—	5	10	—	5
British National (Overseas)	5	(1)—	—	(1)—	5	10
Turkey	—	(1)—	—	—	5	—
Zimbabwe	(1)—	—	5	(1)—	(1)—	(1)—
Federal Republic of Yugoslavia	(1)—	(1)—	—	—	—	—
United States of America	(1)—	—	(1)—	—	—	—
Pakistan	—	—	(1)—	(1)—	(1)—	—
Other Nationalities	5	20	5	5	10	15
(1) Negligible i.e. 2 or less. Notes: 1. Relates to adults only. 2. Figures have been rounded to the nearest 5. Source: Local Management Information.

Children: Protection

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many specialist child protection officers have been employed in each police force area in each of the last five years. [165670]

Mr. McNulty: Figures collected by the Home Office, on police officer and staff numbers by function, do not separately identify child protection officers.

Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis

Mr. Amess: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what meetings she had with the Commissioner of the Police for the Metropolis in each week since June 2007; what the (a) location and (b) duration of each meeting was; whether a record of each meeting was kept; who attended each meeting; what the cost was of each meeting, broken down by (i) administrative and (ii) other costs; and if she will make a statement. [167397]

Mr. McNulty: My right hon. Friend the Home Secretary and I have regular meetings with the Metropolitan Police Commissioner to discuss official business.

Community Relations

Ms Abbott: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what training is being provided to neighbourhood police teams on dealing with radicalisation in their local communities; where such courses are delivered; and what the duration of such courses is. [165839]

Mr. McNulty: I refer to the reply I gave on 19 November 2007, Official Report, column 504-05W to my hon. Friend, the Member for Rotherham (Mr. MacShane).

In addition to the advice and training already available to Neighbourhood Policing Teams, some also receive bespoke ‘Intelligence and Community Engagement’ training, which examines the issues relating to neighbourhood policing teams’ engagement with local communities. This training, which lasts a day and is delivered in force, is being piloted in four police forces and consideration is now being given to its wider dissemination. Police personnel are also able to learn about how to deal with radicalisation through a specific internet website.

The National Policing Improvement Agency is currently completing a major Training Needs Analysis for Counter-Terrorism which includes an analysis of training needs in the areas of radicalisation and extremism. The new learning programme will be available in 2008.

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Community Support Officers: Manpower

Mr. Ruffley: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many police community support officers there were in each of the last four years in each police force area. [165674]

Mr. McNulty: Figures for the four years from 31 March 2004 to 31 March 2007, the most recent published period, are given in the following table.

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Police community support officer strength( 1) (FTE)( 2) by police force: 31 March 2004 to 31 March 2007
Police force	31 March 2004	31 March 2005( 3)	31 March 2006( 3)	31 March 2007( 3)
Avon and Somerset	45	139	130	302
Bedfordshire	12	40	41	83
Cambridgeshire	57	86	101	184
Cheshire	50	52	75	176
Cleveland	77	75	100	114
Cumbria	0	17	17	85
Derbyshire	0	43	42	181
Devon and Cornwall	51	74	74	317
Dorset	8	47	61	122
Durham	28	69	67	142
Essex	86	179	192	388
Gloucestershire	54	72	72	169
Greater Manchester	173	269	251	763
Hampshire	0	26	30	296
Hertfordshire	46	98	139	223
Humberside	0	20	20	194
Kent	59	105	97	203
Lancashire	110	161	184	374
Leicestershire	41	103	136	216
Lincolnshire	38	75	78	147
London, City of	0	14	11	36
Merseyside	72	170	196	332
Metropolitan Police	1,463	2,147	2,315	3,694
Norfolk	33	68	65	176
Northamptonshire	10	37	40	129
Northumbria	51	126	129	248
North Yorkshire	52	75	71	147
Nottinghamshire	56	108	112	217
South Yorkshire	59	124	121	302
Staffordshire	7	63	70	203
Suffolk	15	34	30	123
Surrey	56	115	126	203
Sussex	83	228	257	352
Thames Valley	7	98	130	213
Warwickshire	25	56	64	127
West Mercia	57	81	85	217
West Midlands	39	219	252	644
West Yorkshire	265	394	462	690
Wiltshire	23	41	57	121
Dyfed-Powys	5	25	26	77
Gwent	45	77	76	105
North Wales	0	59	58	145
South Wales	59	107	111	314
Total England and Wales	3,418	6,214	6,769	13,497
(1) This table contains full-time equivalent figures that have been rounded to the nearest whole number. Because of rounding, there may be an apparent discrepancy between totals and the sums of the constituent items. (2) Full-time equivalent includes those on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. (3) Strength figures as at 31 March 2005 onwards include those staff on career breaks or maternity/paternity leave. Therefore these figures are not comparable with those provided for other years in the table.

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